Separator-strip for slide-racks.



892,684. PATENTED JULY '7, 1908.

' A. C. ROEBUCK.

SEPARATOR STRIP FOR SLIDE RACKS.

APPLICATION FILED PEB. 2, 1905.

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ALVAH C. ROEBUOK, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SEPARATOR-STRIP FOR SLIDE-RACKS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July '7, 1908.

Application filed February 2, 1905. Serial No. 243,795.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALvAn O. RonBUoK, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State ofIllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inSeparator- Strips for Slide-R acks, of which the following is a secification.

This invention relates to separator strips for use in racks, shelves andthe like, for holding in separated relation stereopticon slides andother analogous articles, and has for its object to provide a cheap,durable and eflicient separator strip having a structural formationadapted for ready and substantial attachment to a shelf or rack,andwhich while aording an individual separation for the slides, etc.,permits of ready access to the same for removal, ete, all as willhereinafter more fully appear.

In the accompanying drawings z-Figure 1, is a plan view, illustratingthe ap lication of the present invention to a storage ox or rack forstereopticon slides. Fig. 2, is a transverse sectional elevation of thesame, at line :1c-Jr, Fig. 1. Fig. 3, is a detail perspective view ofthe separator strip.

Similar numerals of reference indicate like parts in the differentviews.

Referring to the drawings z-1 and 2, are a air of opposed boardsarranged in parallel re ation and which may be component parts of arack, ease or storage crate for glass stereopticon slides or otheranalogous articles.

3, are a series of grooves or kerfs formed in the opposed surfaces ofthe aforesaid boards, and having a separated relation corresponding tothe widths of the slides or other articles to be held or stored inseparated relation in the rack.

4, are a series of separated strips arranged in the aforesaid grooves orkerfs, and projecting a short distance away from the respective surfacesof the boards 1 and 2, to form shallow channels for the reception of theopposed margins of a-series of-stereopticon slides or the like, and bysuch arrangement are distinguished from oidinary rack or traypartitions, the opposite edges of l to constitute a guide,

which have engagement in kerfs in the opposed faces of the racks and inconsequence do not require the rigid attachment necessary in the presenttype of strip with its free projecting portion and single attachingbase. In the present construction the separator strips are formed with aseries of lateral teeth 5, which alternately project, and which when aseparator strip is driven endwiseinto place in an aforesaid groove orkerf are adapted to enibed themselves in the side walls of said grooveand eHect a strong and substantial attachment of the separator strip inplace. The portions of said separator strips which extend away from theboards 1 and 2, are preferably formed on their o posite sides with aseries of rounded protu erances 6, in alternated relation, and which areadapted to form bearings for the opposite margins of a series ofstereopticon slides or the like, to secure a maximum separation of theslides with a minimum weight of the separator bars, and at the same timeafford convenient access to any particular slide or like article in theremoval of the same from the rack or shelf.

Haxn'ng thus fully described my said invention, what I claim as new anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is z- 1. In a rack for stereopticonslides, the combination of a pair of boards having grooves therein andheld in sepai'ated relation and provided with opposed series ofseparator strips the free ends of which are in separated relation, eachstrip consisting of an elongated piece of inetal rovided with securingmeans along one er ge for driving engagement in a groove of a boardaforesaid, the opposite edge of the stri projecting to constitute aguide, substantia ly as set forth.

2. In a rack for stereopticon slides, the combination of a pair ofboards held in separated relation and provided with opposed series ofseparator strips the free ends of which are in separated relation, eachstrip consisting of an elongated piece of metal provided with securingmeans along one edge for driving engagement in a groove of a boardaforesaid, the opposite edge of the strip proJeeting a series of lateralprotuberanees being provided on the projecting lateral protuberaneesextending alternately 10 portions of the strips7 substantially as set inopposite directions, substantially as set forth. forth.

3. An elongated se arator strip providedv Signed at Chicago, Illinois,this 28th day of 5 With securing means aijong one edge adapted January1905.

for driven engagement in a groove of a slide ALVAH C. ROEBUCK.

rack member, its opposite edge being adapt- Vitnesses:

ed to project and constitute a guide, the pro- ROBERT 'BURNs, Y jeetingportion of the strip having a series of M. H. HOLMES.

